August 2017 – The release of the new Vega GPUs from AMD has been followed by an update in the support software for both professional developers and end point users. The two products are the Radeon Crimson ReLive Software Edition 17.7.2 and the Radeon Pro Crimson ReLive Software 17.8. The lead feature on the Pro…
August 2017 – AMD released the entry level unit on their new Ryzen processor family – the Ryzen 3. The Ryzen family of processors is a new architectural design that is built around the AMD SenseMI technology which manages power, performance boost, extended operating frequency range, Neural Net Prediction on power performance optimization and a…
July 2017 – In a telephone briefing with Cliff Beek, President of the Commercial operations at Cloud Constellation, we discussed their new Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite business called SpaceBelt. The full product name is the SpaceBelt Information Ultra-Highway and it is the first global secure network of interconnected data centers that is housed on…
June 2016 – Bringing new flexibility to the automotive lighting marketplace Maxim Integration addresses key issues for the OEM community. Designed for the extended temperature range of -40C to +125C and full power specification up to 65V the MAX20078 LED controller brings a full automotive grade solution to market. The controller, which is a fully…
February 2017 – Webcams have been an integrated part of mobile computing and an add-on for desktop computing for several decades. These cameras have been increasing in performance over the years for image size, resolution, frame rate and color clarity. They have been bounded by the interface speed of USB2 which limited the capabilities for…
February 2017 – The office environment has changed dramatically over the past decades. Electronic presentations have all but replaced the paper distribution in the standard weekly meetings. The biggest change in this routine is the move away from table top projectors in the conference room in favor of flat screen high definition screens. These screens…
December 2016 – Logitech showed off their new SMB and enterprise collaboration solution that is centered around the Skype for Business communications software and a hardware integration platform centered on the current generation of Surface Pro tablet. The Smartdoc solution supports many of the existing PTZ cameras from the Logitech line, as well as a…
December 2016 – At the AMD Tech Summit, CEO Lisa Su introduced a major shift in the data center and computing marketplace. SVP and Chief Architect of the Radeon Tech Group Raja Koduri presented AMD response to these developments in the marketplace. The market has seen the initial trend of the standalone PC moving to…
September 2016 – At IBC 2016, Imagine Communications introduced their next offering in the area of media storage. Historically, the storage component of a media flow was a physical presence of a SAN, NAS or DAS device. Modern flows now need to work from a Virtual IP base, and this requires a redesign of where…
September 2016 – Fraunhofer Institute from Germany released several advancements that have come from their commercial R&D activities at the IBC show in Amsterdam. There were three (3) main areas of the announcements at the show – those related to VR, those related to light field and those related to their easyDCP Software Suite. The…